Mandarin Oriental

March 23rd, 2010 @

Mandarin Oriental

Mandarin Oriental Manila is a five-star hotel owned and being managed by the Mandarin Oriental Group based in Hong Kong. The hotel boasts of Chinese-inspired interiors and cuisine. It is five minutes away from Greenbelt and from Makati’s central business district. It is also 14 kilometers away from the capital Manila. Georgian Suite (Photo from [...]

Category : Accommodation / Makati City

Little Tokyo

March 22nd, 2010 @

Little Tokyo

Once you’re in Manila, you may experience Japan without having to take another flight. For those who haven’t gone to the Land of the Rising Sun, just cross the street from Makati Cinema Square and you’ll find yourself welcomed by a Japanese torii or gate leading to a small strip of manicured Zen gardens, complete [...]

Category : Entertainment / Makati City

Festival Supermall and Alabang Town Center

March 22nd, 2010 @

Festival Supermall and Alabang Town Center

Although far off from the rest of Manila, Festival Supermall and its adjoining Alabang Town Center are being visited by locals and some tourists for its attractions and entertainment facilities found nowhere else in the Metro. Among these attractions is the so-called biggest and longest indoor rollercoaster in the Philippines. Alabang Town Center (Photo by [...]

Category : Entertainment / Muntinlupa City

Glorietta

March 19th, 2010 @

Glorietta

Next to Greenbelt is Glorietta, a vast shopping mall divided into five departments named Glorietta 1 to 5. Like Greenbelt, Glorietta contains a variety of stores and attractions including designer shops, cinemas, a gym, restaurants, arcades, and an events and activity center at its heart. But unlike Greenbelt that mostly caters to high-end customers, Glorietta [...]

Category : Entertainment / Makati City

A. Venue

March 19th, 2010 @

A. Venue

Near Burgos and Jupiter Street is Antel Lifestyle City, more popularly called A. Venue, a 5,777-sq.-m. complex comprised of an entertainment mall with an integrated boutique hotel and events venue. Through its restaurants, dynamic bars, and a spacious hall that hosts international and local events, A. Venue and its developers hope to bring Makati Avenue’s [...]

Category : Entertainment / Makati City

Harbor Square

March 18th, 2010 @

Harbor Square

At the side of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, bordering the Manila Yacht Club, is a walkway and restaurant row lined with coconut trees, swept by the sea breeze, and providing a picturesque view of the sunset and the yachts moored at Manila Bay. This enclave is called Harbor Square, considered by some as [...]

Category : Entertainment / Manila City

Ermita

March 18th, 2010 @

Ermita

A district in Manila city, Ermita is located halfway between Malate and the old walled city of Intramuros. Before it became known for its motels, lodging houses, rooms for rent, prostitution dens and red light district, Ermita was a 16th century hermitage and a stage of war during the 1945 Battle of Manila. Ermita’s M.H. [...]

Category : Entertainment / Manila City

Timog

March 18th, 2010 @

Timog

Timog or South Avenue is a famous dining and entertainment strip in Quezon City. The avenue’s fine-dining restaurants, comedy bars, karaoke joints, acoustic bars and gay bars provide live music and all-night recreation. (Photo Iluminada Fajardo-Castigador) Several streets in the area are named after the 22 boy scouts who died in a plane crash on [...]

Category : Entertainment / Quezon City

Bonifacio High Street

March 17th, 2010 @

Bonifacio High Street

Taguig city’s answer to New York’s Fifth Avenue is Bonifacio High Street, a 400-meter-long esplanade full of designer retail shops, diverse cuisine, and live street performances. Found at the heart of Bonifacio Global City, Bonifacio High Street aims to redefine the mall experience as “a walk in the park.” (Photo by MrLoFi) High life on [...]

Category : Entertainment / Taguig City

Serendra

March 17th, 2010 @

Serendra

If you can’t go to the countryside to experience nature, why not bring nature to you? This is the concept behind Serendra, a low-density residential and commercial community at the heart of Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. Serendra features low to mid-rise condos and devotes more than half of its 12-hectare area to verdant, spacious [...]

Category : Entertainment / Taguig City